The comic posted an astonishing online rant about the monarch’s German heritage after footage emerged of her apparently giving a Nazi salute as a child.

Brand, 40, said the Queen did not merit special treatment and was just “a little old lady in a shiny hat that we paid for”.

He said she sat “at the top of a class pyramid on a shelf of money with her own face on it”.

And instead of being known as “Your Highness” she should be plain old “Mrs Windsor” or her German name “Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha”.

Salute Brand said her surname was changed during the war “to distract us from the inconvenient fact that they (the Royals) were as German as the enemy that teenage boys were being encouraged, conscripted actually, to die fighting”.

He added: “Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha!! No wonder they f***ing changed it.

It’s the most German thing I’ve ever heard. She might’ve well as been called Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi”.

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“Russell I love you and your point of view most of the time, but please leave the little old lady alone”

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The sickening comments, originally from Brand’s book Revolution, were posted by the comic on Instagram after a 17-second blackand- white film clip of the royals emerged from 1933.

It shows the seven-year-old Queen-to-be and the Queen Mother giving what appears to be a Nazi salute, with three-year-old sister Princess Margaret and uncle Prince Edward, a suspected Nazi sympathiser, standing alongside.

Debc0412 wrote: “Russell I love you and your point of view most of the time, but please leave the little old lady alone.”

Ninayrr said: “Just because they were doing the Nazi salute in that video (fyi the queen was 7) and that Edward was known to be a Nazi sympathiser doesn’t make them Nazis or allows Brand to mock their family name with a Nazi reference.”

The film is thought to have been released accidentally among a batch of royal home movies passed on to film-makers.

The Palace is said to be considering legal action. Earlier this month Brand was forced to backtrack after dismissing the national minute’s silence in honour of victims of the Tunisian gun massacre as “total bulls***”.